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- Description:
- Doug Sleep talks about his career in the export department at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1961 to 1975. Sleep talks about preparing trucks to be shipped for sale overseas, about becoming a UAW steward and the deterioration of worker/management relations when the company changed ownership. Sleep describes the difficulty in running a shop with the chronic shortage of parts in the company's last days and final owner Francis Cappaert's attempts to break the union. He also laments the loss of the worker pension fund and the creation of federal pension guarantee program. The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. The first minute of the interview was not recorded. Recorded as part of the commemoration of the REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-06-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This is a small collection of personal memorabilia, records and correspondence, and an oral history recording with Ernest A. "Ernie" Nostrant, who worked for Diamond Reo for many years. He was an employee during volatile times of buyouts and pension problems, and his records and interview reflect some of this upheaval. Some of the contents are restricted due to personally identifying information. The collection includes some small ephemera: three of Nostrant's ID badges (two with Diamond Reo logos; the third with "Superintendent" below his name); an employee ID card from the Diamond Reo Truck Division, White Motor Corporation (undated); a fabric Diamond Reo patch; and one of Nostrant's business cards from Diamond Reo Trucks. Some White material is in this collection: an 1968 annual report, and a 1970 stockholder proxy report. There is also a file of Nostrant's insurance policy information, pay stubs, and credit union statements. Following the failure of Diamond Reo under ownership of Francis A. Cappaert in the 1970s, there were problems with the pensions of retired employees including Nostrant. Congressman Bob Carr took up this issue as part of an amendment to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). A file of correspondence between Carr, Nostrant, and others about a class action lawsuit and legislation is part of this collection. In addition, an oral history interview was recorded by MSU student Zachariah Torrey with Ernie Nostrant at Nostrant's home in Grand Ledge, Michigan, on March 14, 2018. They discussed Nostrant's work history and the contents of this collection. The interview audio file is linked in this record. This collection may have been a garage sale purchase by David Caterino, who then left the collection to the Capital Area District Libraries. Student Zachariah Torrey assisted CADL Local History in processing this collection. Mr. Nostrant had no idea how the materials had come to be in Caterino's possession, but has allowed the library to maintain ownership in addition to adding a few small items and his oral history interview.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ernie Nostrant Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains audio cassette recordings of the City of Lansing's Board of Ethics Committee, primarily during meetings concerning the controversial early retirement plan that was put in place in 1992 during the leadership of Mayor Terry McKane. The plan allowed 144 city employees the option of an early retirement with an enhanced pension, which the mayor and others involved in the plan took advantage of. The city was then sued by the United Auto Workers and other parties. This is not a comprehensive set of recordings; the Lansing State Journal reported on destruction of some tapes during the course of the meetings on the retirement plan. The City Clerk's office maintains textual transcripts of the meetings.
- Date Created:
- [1988 TO 1993]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Board of Ethics
- Description:
- This collection contains audio cassette recordings of the City of Lansing's Board of Ethics Committee, primarily during meetings concerning the controversial early retirement plan that was put in place in 1992 during the leadership of Mayor Terry McKane. The plan allowed 144 city employees the option of an early retirement with an enhanced pension, which the mayor and others involved in the plan took advantage of. The city was then sued by the United Auto Workers and other parties. This is not a comprehensive set of recordings; the Lansing State Journal reported on destruction of some tapes during the course of the meetings on the retirement plan. The City Clerk's office maintains textual transcripts of the meetings.
- Date Created:
- [1988 TO 1993]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Board of Ethics
- Description:
- This is a small collection of personal memorabilia, records and correspondence, and an oral history recording with Ernest A. "Ernie" Nostrant, who worked for Diamond Reo for many years. He was an employee during volatile times of buyouts and pension problems, and his records and interview reflect some of this upheaval. Some of the contents are restricted due to personally identifying information. The collection includes some small ephemera: three of Nostrant's ID badges (two with Diamond Reo logos; the third with "Superintendent" below his name); an employee ID card from the Diamond Reo Truck Division, White Motor Corporation (undated); a fabric Diamond Reo patch; and one of Nostrant's business cards from Diamond Reo Trucks. Some White material is in this collection: an 1968 annual report, and a 1970 stockholder proxy report. There is also a file of Nostrant's insurance policy information, pay stubs, and credit union statements. Following the failure of Diamond Reo under ownership of Francis A. Cappaert in the 1970s, there were problems with the pensions of retired employees including Nostrant. Congressman Bob Carr took up this issue as part of an amendment to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). A file of correspondence between Carr, Nostrant, and others about a class action lawsuit and legislation is part of this collection. In addition, an oral history interview was recorded by MSU student Zachariah Torrey with Ernie Nostrant at Nostrant's home in Grand Ledge, Michigan, on March 14, 2018. They discussed Nostrant's work history and the contents of this collection. The interview audio file is linked in this record. This collection may have been a garage sale purchase by David Caterino, who then left the collection to the Capital Area District Libraries. Student Zachariah Torrey assisted CADL Local History in processing this collection. Mr. Nostrant had no idea how the materials had come to be in Caterino's possession, but has allowed the library to maintain ownership in addition to adding a few small items and his oral history interview.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ernie Nostrant Collection
- Description:
- Doug Sleep talks about his career in the export department at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1961 to 1975. Sleep talks about preparing trucks to be shipped for sale overseas, about becoming a UAW steward and the deterioration of worker/management relations when the company changed ownership. Sleep describes the difficulty in running a shop with the chronic shortage of parts in the company's last days and final owner Francis Cappaert's attempts to break the union. He also laments the loss of the worker pension fund and the creation of federal pension guarantee program. The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. The first minute of the interview was not recorded. Recorded as part of the commemoration of the REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-06-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection